Brett A. Thielen, 42, Savage, Minnesota, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in federal court in Minneapolis for executing a scheme to defraud mortgage lenders by arranging for the fraudulent purchase of condominiums located in the Sexton Building in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Shirley Wong, aka Ngoc Li Vuong, 42, San Jose, California, a Silicon Valley engineer technician, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to conspiring to commit mail fraud in connection with the financing and acquisition of two residential properties in Fresno County, California that were later used for the indoor cultivation of large
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Rito Miguel Diaz, Jr, has been sentenced by Judge Philip S. Gutierrez to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons for 24 months as charged in Count One of the Four-Count sealed Indictment. Diaz, Jr was also sentenced to supervised release for three years, a special assessment of $100, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $1,254,667. Continue Reading...
Melvin Rohs, 64, Nevada City, California, pleaded guilty to three counts of embezzlement by a bank employee and two counts of making a false statement in connection with a loan application.
According to court documents, Rohs was a senior loan officer at a regional bank headquartered in Nevada City,
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Rebecca Moody, 61, formerly of New Port Richey, Florida, was arrested in West Virginia, on charges of wire fraud and transportation of stolen property in connection with a mortgage, and other accounts, belonging to an elderly, disabled victim who resided in New Port Richey, Florida, at the time of the charged offenses. If convicted on all counts, Moody faces a maximum
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Meggan J. Alexander, 29, Mason City, Iowa, has been convicted of one count of making a false statement for the purpose of obtaining a HUD-insured loan, and three counts of making a false statement to a bank in connection with a loan; she was acquitted of one count of making a false statement to a bank in connection with a loan. David L. Continue Reading...
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released two mortgage fraud reports entitled Mortgage Loan Fraud SAR Filings, which together cover the first six months of 2010; one report covers January through March 2010, and the other covers April through June 2010.
Taken together the reports show that suspicious activity reports (SARs)
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Michael James Burns, Jr., 51, San Francisco, California, was sentenced on October 8, 2010, to serve 87 months in prison, 3 years supervised release upon release from incarceration and restitution of $445,532.45, following his guilty plea to wire fraud and money laundering. Burns created a company, BMJ Capital to allegedly finance
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Jeffrey Gonsiewski, 56, Wood Dale, Illinois, a former suburban bank vice president, was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison following his fraud conviction for changing the terms of at least 100 loans for at least 50 customers and causing the bank to lose at least $5.1 million. Jeffrey Gonsiewski, formerly vice president of the loan department at Continue Reading...
With only a month left and just over 10,000 of the almost 43,000 mortgage industry professionals having submitted their new applications, the Florida Office of Financial Regulation (OFR) is concerned that mortgage professionals will not get their applications in on time and will not be able to continue working in the industry come January 1, 2011. All industry licensees are required to re-apply under the new Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System (NMLS) with more stringent requirements,
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